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Oct 9th (See this week's devar torah)
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Hi again!
Well, this was a week full of adventure! Being the intermediate days of Sukkot, we wanted to "get out" a bit. So on Sunday, Esther and I were planning to go a free tour put on by the Ministry of Science and Technology. According to the official web site, the place we were intending to go was halfway between Hevron and Jerusalem. So we went... and went... and ended up almost in Hevron when we decided that we must have the wrong instructions. So we asked someone nearby, who told us the place we were looking for wasn't between Hevron and Jerusalem, but between Beer Sheva and Hevron! At least we got a nice drive out of it.
Monday we decided to go to Tel Shilo. Using our trusty map, we followed route 60 north out of Jerusalem and promptly ended up almost in Ramallah. We (I, really) didn't pay attention to a sign like this one, which reads: "This road continues to 'Area A', which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority. It is forbidden for Israelis to enter Area A, is a danger to your lives, and constitutes a criminal offense.". So the Palis are well on their way to getting their Judenrein state of terrorists. And we, idiots, are making it possible.
Monday night we had my cousins over. Tuesday we rested, after all the excitement; but then the roof blew off our sukkah, which added back a certain level of excitement we had been missing. Wednesday we drove to Raanana to visit friends. Didn't detour to any Area A attractions, thank God! And Thursday we had a friend over for lunch, then I visited another friend. All in all a very interesting and mostly restful week.
As a joke, I gave the following derasha on Monday night: "Our Sages mentioned that the 70 bulls brought as sacrifices during the sukkot holiday, correspond to the 70 nations of the world. But they don't explain why bulls are brought. Perhaps it is God's way of telling us the nations of the world are full of bull!". I didn't realize that I would be proven right so soon! By now you've heard the incredible news that the Obamanator won the Nobel Peace prize. Not only has he accomplished nothing whatsoever in his nine months in office, the parties in our neck of the woods are even farther apart than ever! It makes me wonder: just how much of a bribe does a Nobel Prize actually cost? I mean, he was President of the USA for only two weeks before the nomination process for the prize was closed...
In other news: I made a new release of my halachic times calculator, Zemanim (version 2.01), this week. Well, I think it's exciting even if you don't!
Shabbat (and yom-tov!) is almost here, and I better finish getting ready. So...
Until next week,
Shabbat shalom and Hag sameaH!
שבת שלום וחג שמח!
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